Recent content by phs3

Seven are with Cox. Why would I want to stagger the check times? That's never mattered in 20 years of multiple accounts with varied ISPs. It's not like my measly few connections overwhelm their servers. Confused.

Thanks. I have a dozen or so POP accounts. Disabling isn't an option, and lengthening the period would of course reduce the incidence, but doesn't really help--biggest problem is coming back to the machine and having the dialog up and no email, then having to wait for a few dozen messages to...

Our ISP (Cox) is having lots of POP and/or authentication server trouble lately, with concomitant failures checking mail. Looking at the errors (in Outlook logging or from another client) I see authentication timeouts, "Internal server error", etc. If I could just suppress the dialog box, I'd...

Since we migrated to Outlook 365 (or 364.5, as we call it; I actually heard a Microsoftie talk at length about "Office 360", which made me laugh!), Outlook often decides it's not going to send mail. Not all the time, but sometimes. Incoming always works, even when it's not sending, and if I do...